experimental qemu-devel port update, please test!

Eric Anderson anderson at freebsd.org
Sun Apr 22 04:02:20 UTC 2007


On 04/20/07 18:35, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:41:01PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
>>>>> Or, did something in your kernel change maybe that necessitates
>>>>> a rebuild of the kqemu kld?
>>>> Evidently that was it - after rebuilding/reinstalling the kqemu module, 
>>>> all is well.  Nothing else changed to make it work.  Woohoo!  Thanks - 
>>>> not sure why I didn't think of that.. :)
>> For this reason I have
>>
>> PORTS_MODULES=emulators/kqemu-kmod
>>
>> in /etc/make.conf so that it gets rebuilt when I rebuild the kernel.
>>
>>>  Right, qemu doesn't come with one (I haven't played with pxe booting
>>> yet so I didn't even notice.)
>> Actually it does.  See /usr/local/share/qemu/pxe-* but due to
>> at lease one bug it doesn't work.
> 
> Not for the eepro100 (fxp) varietys.
>>>>  I 
>>>> tried to make one, but it still didn't like it.  I'm not sure which 
>>>> selection to pick from the rom-o-matic site.
>> I found and fixed one bug in src/core/osloader.c (in
>> etherboot-5.4.3 code) which allows me to get a little bit
>> further.  If anyone wants to play with this more, I can send
>> them my changes.
> 
>  You may want to post those on the qemu list...
> 
> 	Juergen


On this list too, since I'm not subscribed to the qemu list (nor are 
many people on this list I'm guessing).


Eric



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